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How do fault- block mountains form?

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when a colliding boundary collides and pushes up a mountain. an example of a fault block mtn. range is the Himalayas.




Actually the previous answer is incorrect. They form when the tenison pu on Earth is so great that it caused large blocks of rock to move down relative to the other causing a change in elevation and a moutain to form. The previous answer was how folded mountains form....
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